Cushion heel



INVEN IIIA ATTORNEY Aug., :31, 1926.

S. H. MANNING CUSHION HEEL Filed Oct. 29, 1924 f f f f f Patented Aug. 31 1926.

PATENT OFFICE.

SAM HOUSTON MANNING, F CNROE, TEXAS.

CUSHION HEEL.

Application led ctober 29, 1924. Serial No. 746,646.

My present invention pertains to cushion heels for boots and shoes, and it contemplates the provision of a peculiar and advantageous cushion heel susceptible of ready application to ordinary boots and shoes and characterized by cavities in its underside, by a peculiar' reenforcing plate embedded in the rubber or other resilient material of the heel, by a corrugated underside adapted to prevent slipping, and b y bores adapted to increase the resiliency and the cushioning capacity of the heel.

Other objects and practical advantages of the invention will be fully understood from the following description and claims when the same are read in connection with the drawings, accompanying and forming part of this specification, in which Figure 1 is an inverted plan of the heel constituting the preferred embodiment of my invention.

Figures 2 and 3 are sections taken in the planes indicated by the lines 2-2 and 3-, respectively, of Figure l.

Figure et is a top plan view of the heel.

Similar numerals of reference designate corresponding parts in all of the views of the drawings.

rlhe major portion of my novel heel is designated by l, and is composed of appropriate vulcanized rubber or other resilient material compatible with the purpose of a cushion heel. At the underside the said heel is provided with cavities 2 and with crossed ribs 3, the said cavities and ribs being preferably arranged as shown and being designed to prevent slipping. Nail holes Ll are formed in the heel at the time of the manufacture thereof as also the cavities 2 and the rib-s 3, and at the time of manufacture the heel'is also provided with a series of longitudinal bores 5 which are open at the front edge of the heel for the ingress and egress of air and are closed at their rear ends, which ends are disposed adjacent to the rear viortion of the vertical edge of the heel. Manifestly the said bores 5 are calculated to materially increase the cushioning capacity of the heel.

lith a view to lending ample stiffness and strength to the upper portion of the heel a plate 6, preferably of metal is embedded in the rubber of the heel at the time of manufacture. The said plate 6 is peculiar in that it has a central fora-minous depressed portion 7, a marginal raised portion S with nail holes 9, and a pendent foraminous skirt flange l0. The foraminations in the plate increase the strength of the fastening of the plate inthe rubber as do the shoulders afforded by the central depression and the raised portion and the skirt fiange, and by virtue of the plate having the central depressed portion, no discomfort to the wearer of the heel will follow from the provision of the plate in the position indicated, the rubber above the central depressed portion being designed to serve as a cushion.

lt will be apparent from the foregoing that my novel heel is materially advantageous, and yet is quite as inexpensive as the ordinary rubber heel extant.

l have specifically described the preferred embodiment of my invention in order to impart an exact understanding of said embodiment. I do not desire, however, to be understood as confining myself to the structure disclosed, my invention being defined by my appended claims within which changes may be made without departure from my inver:- tion.

Having described my invention, what l .claim and desire to secure by Letters-Patent, 1s:-d

1. A cushion heel of resilient material having an oval shaped rear end and a concave portion at its forward end and said heel being formed with a series of longitudinal bores arranged in spaced relation and an opening at the forward edge of the heel for the ingress and egress of air upon coinpression and expansion of the cushion heel later lly and said bores being closed at the rear end of the heel.

2. A cushion heel comprising a body of resilient material, and a stiflening plate embedded in the upper portion of the heel, said plate having a foraminous depressed portion, a marginal raised portion having nail holes therethrough and a pendent foraminous skirt portion.

In testimony whereof I afliX my signature.

SAM HOUSTON MANNING. 

